Originally Posted by Charlatan

We have done potluck dinners where people bring food. They work well but I am not a big fan because you end up with a bunch of food that doesn't always go together.

We have also done progressive dinners, where you move to different people's houses for the different courses. Usually these are done on a theme (i.e. Mexican).

My favourite was a make your own pizza night. We turned out a huge whack of dough and people were assigned to bring different ingredients. Everyone makes their own pizza and bakes it off. It was a lot of fun.